Stop Blaming Circumstances for Failure

Human being lives in a society of
ping pong game. Most of us inherent unavoidable nature of blaming other rather
than blaming ourselves for one or another failure but we are very good in
taking credit. The natural nature of all of us to be ready with excuses when it
comes to take the onus of failure and try to throw it to someone else
irrespective of personal or professional life.

In office, if we are given an
assignment and it's not done then we plan the excuses with focus on other. Most
of the time we fail to accept that, It's
my mistake or I don't know but tries to throw the ball in other court like
" Waiting for input" or " I have a question" . It’s clearly
indicating our nature of not accepting failure but take the route of
circumstances as excuses for not delivering. If someone claims that we don't do
that than its blatant lie.

Take an example of Personal Life
and if someone is supposed to buy the vegetables but missed it completely and
reached home. The answer will be simple " Dear I was on a call while
coming back home" or I got late or Vegetable quality was not good or bla
bla instead of accepting that it skipped.

In a scenario, we change our
nature a bit towards proactive acceptance of failure then our success is
guaranteed. If we accept that because of lack of knowledge I failed to deliver
then there might be a scenario wherein my reporting manager will sought at me
but he will allocate additional resource to keep the deliverable on time. That
will help us gain knowledge set and will not be forced again to give another
excuses.

We all must remember that it takes
fraction of second to give excuses but lots of guts of accept mistake. The day
we start accepting our mistake we make home run. I would like to request
readers to think over it and will appreciate readers experience or comment.

About
Devendra Prasad

20 years plus industry veteran of domestic and international ICT domain with the expertise in Business, Technology, Strategy and Analysis. Specializes in forecasting impact analysis, trends and recommendations for Investments, Technology and Regulations.